UPDATE: Boil water order lifted
Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe boil water order in Fredonia is over. Mayor Michael Ferguson is confident that with the recent deal, boil water orders will soon end....
Environment
In light of boil water order, mayor confident in new water deal
Reading Time: 5 minutesFor the seventh time in the last two and a half years, Fredonia’s water isn’t safe to consume. But a new deal may put an end to the boil water orders....
Single-use plastics, including balloons, on the way out at Fredonia
Reading Time: 5 minutesMATT VOLZ Editor in Chief While many Fredonia students were enjoying their summer vacations, changes in connection with SUNY’s sustainability policy were announced, some of which may affect students. On July 18, an email was sent to the campus community by Sarah Laurie, Fredonia’s director of environmental health, safety and......
All about the upcoming Reverberation Music Festival
Reading Time: 4 minutesLEE PYE Staff Writer Last year, a student-run, all-day music festival celebrated folk with folks, and the Reverberation Music Festival is coming back a lot bigger, and a lot louder. Jacob Kantner is a fourth-year English Adolescent Education BA/MA student at SUNY Fredonia, balancing his major, being a singer/songwriter and......
Fall Sweep preview
Reading Time: 2 minutesROSEMARIE RAPISARDA Staff Writer A student-run organization Applied Communications Association (ACA) is hosting its annual community service event, Fall Sweep. For the past 12 years, the event has been drawing hundreds of students into the Fredonia community to rake leaves in residents’ lawns. Last year, 400 students were in attendance.......
[OPINION] The arrival of autumn
Reading Time: 4 minutesISABELLA INZINNA Staff Writer The leaves are turning orange, the air is cool and crisp, ah it’s fall again, obviously the best season. What other season has two names? I mean you have winter, spring, summer and fall. But fall has a much cooler name: autumn. How pretty is that?......
Celebrating Earth Day with Music Industry Club’s Soulstice Jam
Reading Time: 2 minutesISABELLA INZINNA Special to the Leader Music Industry Club (MIC) helped SUNY Fredonia celebrate Earth Day on Saturday, April 22. MIC offered students a day full of music and vendors for entertainment. Soulstice Jam was meant to take place in Dod’s Grove, but the rainy day forced MIC to change......
Dead birds of Rockefeller: One year later
Reading Time: 8 minutesNERON SIMPSON Special to The Leader Graphic by Dice Yandow Everyone has had at least one moment in their life where they have walked into a glass, but most people do not die from it. Birds passing through SUNY Fredonia cannot say the same. In October 2021, former managing editor......
Earth Day events hosted by Greystone Nature Preserve, FRED Grows and Enactus + photo gallery
Reading Time: 2 minutesTANNER CLARK Special to The Leader Earth Day, which annually takes place on April 22, bloomed into an array of events offered in Fredonia on a beautiful Friday afternoon. Greystone Nature Preserve hosted this event with two campus clubs: FRED Grows and the Planet Division of Enactus to celebrate the......
SUNY Fredonia’s snow makes it difficult for students to navigate campus
Reading Time: 3 minutesCHLOE KOWALYK News Editor During the winter season, SUNY Fredonia’s campus becomes a landscape of white snow and giant snowflakes sticking to the trees. However, along with the winter aesthetic comes various issues for students trying to walk around campus. One student in particular, Max Sheedy, uses a wheelchair to......